We have long argued that these irrational crackdowns on immigration will deeply damage America's leadership in the world in technology, and many other endeavors, including bio-pharmaceuticals. And more broadly, a loss of vibrant multicultural richness in all our lives too will be felt for a generation. Here's that from the NYT, today:
. . .Across the United States, someone is missing.
One year into President Trump’s immigration crackdown, construction firms in Louisiana are scrambling to find carpenters. Hospitals in West Virginia have lost out on doctors and nurses who were planning to come from overseas. A neighborhood soccer league in Memphis cannot field enough teams because immigrant children have stopped showing up.
America is closing its doors to the world, sealing the border, squeezing the legal avenues to entry and sending new arrivals and longtime residents to the exits.
Visa fees have been jacked up, refugee admissions are almost zero and international student admissions have dropped. The rollback of temporary legal statuses granted under the Biden administration has rendered hundreds of thousands more people newly vulnerable to removal at any time. The administration says it has already expelled more than 600,000 people. . . .
I lament every bit of this -- every bit.
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